Environment and Biodiversity

KEY POINTS

Reasons

·         There is neither strong social awareness nor enough political will to promote recycling as a way of life.

·         Waste collection and segregation mechanism is largely unorganised.

·         Most municipal infrastructure is dated and inadequate in terms of collection and transportation.

·         Appropriate technologies to maximise recovery from recycling are still nascent.

Benefits

·         Environmental and social gains

·         Reduce dependence on scrap imports

·         Generate new jobs

Way ahead

·         Thus, a transition is imminent to raise the quality of economic growth from the depletive ‘produce-consume-dispose’ led linear economy to a ‘reduce-recover-reuse-recycle-redesign-remanufacture’ led circular economy which is more regenerative and restorative in nature.

·         There is a felt need for a more comprehensive policy and regulatory simplification aiming at a formal ecosystem and ‘ease of doing business’ for recyclers.

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